Folding wardrobe.



M. A. DARBY.

FOLDING WARDROBE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 18. 1915. RENEWED DEC. 1, I916.

Patented Mar. 27, 1917.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

MICHAEL A. DARBY, 0F BERGEN, NEW YORK.

FOLDING WARDROBE.

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Application filed February 18, 1915, Serial No. 9,138. Renewed December1, 1916.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, MICHAEL A. DARBY, acitizen of the United States, residin at Bergen, in the county ofGenesee and S tate of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in robes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in folding wardrobes and'itsobject is to produce a device of this class that can be readilyassembled and attached to a door or wall or other supporting surface andas readily removed and folded into portable shape.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists inthe combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fullydescribed in the following specification, pointed out in the claims andillus- D trated in the accompanying drawings which form a part of saidspecification and in which- Figure 1 is a front view of my improvedwardrobe in assembled position.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a front view, partly in section, of the wardrobe.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a view of the device in folded position.

Like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views.

The reference numeral 1 designates a door to which my wardrobe may beattached by means of the metal straps or supports 2, 2. The wardrobeproper comprises a folding frame consisting of the channeled base rail 3carried directly by the straps 2, 2 and provided at each end with thecastings 4, 4 in which one end of the lateral rods 5, 5 are pivotallysecured, said rods being further secured in position by means of the setscrews 6, 6 which extend through the projections 7, 7 of castings 4, 4and into said rods. The rods releasably carry at their free extremitiesthe cross rod 8 and at their longitudinal centers they carry anothercross rod 9 similar in all respects to the rod 8. The said rod 9 isadapted to slidably Specification of Letters Patent.

Folding Wardfastened together, a top Patented Mar. 2?, 1917.

Serial No. 134,506.

carry the garment hangers 10 upon which the garments are directlycarried within the frame just described.

The lateral rods 5, 5 are provided with rings 11 that carry the curtains12, 12 that each extend half way across the front of the frame and areprovided along their meeting edges with buttons by means of which theymay be fastened together. A top portion 13 provided with a flap 14engages the upper edge of the curtains 12, 12 and is frictionallyretained in operative position between the base rail 3 and the wardrobesupport 1. In Fig. 1 the wardrobe is shown assembled. To collapse andremove the same the top is first removed by withdrawing one edge frombetween the base rail and support, the set screws 6, 6 are removed fromengagement with the lateral rods 5, 5, the cross rods 8, 9 areremovedfrom said lateral rods which rods are then folded into thechanneled portion of the base rail, the garment hangers removed from thecross rods, the ends of the cross rods disposed in the extensions 7 thecurtains 12, 12 rolled up and retained in rolled position, together withthe cross rods, by means of the straps 15, 15 carried by the channeledbase rail.

at is claimed is:

1. 'A folding wardrobe comprising a supporting element, a channeled baserail carried by and spaced away from said supporting element, lateralarms pivotally associated with said base rail and adapted to be foldedthereinto, cross rods removably carried by said lateral arms, garmenthangers carried by said cross rods, curtains supported by said lateralarms and adapted to be frictionally retamed in operative relation bysaid base rail and said supporting element, and a flap carried by saidtop for engagement with said curtains.

2. A folding wardrobe comprising a channeled base rail, castings formedwith extensions carried at the ends of said base rail, lateral armspivotally carried by said castings and releasably secured to saidextensions, cross rods removably carried by said lateral arms andadapted when in inoperative position to be terminally disposed as my ownI have hereto aflixed my signa- 1n sald extensions, garment hangersreleasture 1n the presence of tWo subscribing W1tably carried by saldcross roads and straps nesses.

carried by said base rail for engaging and MICHAEL A. DARBY. supportingsaid lateral arms and cross rods Witnesses: When in folded orinoperative position. THOMAS F. DARBY,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing JOHN DARBY.

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. Washington, 3).. O.

